Destined For War: Can America And China Escape ... Official

: The rising power often views its growth as benign and grows more entitled, while the ruling power sees this as ungrateful and fears losing its edge. Why the US-China Case is "Grim"

: Named after the ancient Greek historian Thucydides, who observed that the Peloponnesian War was caused by "the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta". Destined for War: Can America and China Escape ...

The "trap" refers to the dangerous structural stress that occurs when a (China) threatens to displace a ruling power (the United States). : The rising power often views its growth

: Both nations suffer from "extreme superiority complexes," viewing themselves as exceptional and peerless. Book Summary: Destined for War by Graham Allison : Both nations suffer from "extreme superiority complexes,"

: Allison’s team identified 16 cases over the last 500 years where a rising power challenged a ruling one; 12 of these resulted in war .

Allison suggests several factors make this seventeenth case particularly dangerous: